Some days

I swear, My students try to drive me crazy on purpose. 
I've wanted to pull my hair out today, and all the other teachers agreed that it was the same today. Must be the sudden cold air we've had and the snow. Makes the kids excited, we've all noticed that they're just more talkative. Perhaps they're trying to keep warm by talking all the time??? :)
I still love my students though, they're awesome :) 

I have a meeting with the director of the grad program that I want to go into at the U of U tonight. I hope it goes well and I hope the prospects of attending grad school improve after tonight. We shall see. Well the prospects of attending grad school for free on a scholarship anyway...that's what I'm worried

Teacher headache

Hope and Pray that you NEVER have a REAL fire in your school. 

We had one today, allbeit a little one (Internal fire int he wall caused by the electrical stuff from the socket). Waiting out there for over an hour for everything to be fixed and taken care of. Trying to come up with ideas out of your butt to keep the kids entertained so that they don't drive every single soul around you crazy. All at the same time while trying to keep your sanity. Having five kids who suddenly have to go pee really bad when 10 minutes ago, they just did go pee (stupid fear feeling that triggers the need to wet your pants, which none of my kids did, thankfully). Having a billion questions that you can't answer about fires, and suddenly feeling retarded cause your own father is a firefighter and the kids remind you of that and ask why you don't know. 

And still have one hour of school left. Thank goodness it was just the late birds hour....but still....*head swims*

One year!

Happy one year anniversary to me and Bryan! YAY!

We're not doing our BIG celebration until next when I have THursday and Friday off, but we're still going to go and taste the wedding cake and go out to a nice dinner. :) I'm excited! YAY! :)

Sick Bryan

Bryan is sick as a dog. Please keep in your thoughts and prayers. He tested positive for strep tonsillitis today, was so dehydrated earlier that he had to have an IV to get some fluids in him. He didn't feel sick until this morning (crazy huh?) It's now the middle of the night and he's gone back downhill with the fever and throwing up. So any thoughts and prayers are appreciated, (especially because I do NOT want to clean up puke again...bleh). 

Thanks

I hate inside recess, my students love it

Teachers are so not paid enough. :) 

There is only ONE thing that I HATE about the rain. I L-O-V-E everything else about it, but the one thing I hate?

Inside recess (good bye half hour of my lunch time).

Joys of teaching

Joys of teaching early childhood education is that you get to see their inventive spelling. I love it. The students had homework where they had to think of math stories or objects to add up to 14. One example would be :
9 pinecones and 5 acorns on the forest floor. 

Here are some of the ones that were found in their work, all of them are typed exactly the way they did it:

Student 1 just moved from CA. You can tell. Every thing this student has a choice on choosing a subject or theme, it has to do with beaches. Below is an example of one of the math stories :) 

Student1
"I went to 1 beach then to 13 more beaches how many beaches in all?"

Student2
"I have 9 pentsals and a girl gave me 5 more pensal now haw mach pensals do i have?"

Student 3
"I have 8 shirtes and 6 pairs of shoes. how many peaces of clothing do i have?"

Student 4
"my sister has 14 candies :( and I have 0. How many candies do we have?" (yes the frowny face was there).

Student 5
"I wode like 2 glasis of milk and I wode like 12 lofs of bred. haw meney toogetr?"

Student 6
"i planted 9 onions and my dad planted 5 really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really hot peppers, and we had 14 together"

And finally student 7, took me a minute to figure it out.
"6 strabeers and 8 blu beers"


I love it! :)

I love teaching

Aw man! So glad it's Friday. It may have only been a four day working week, but it was still an exhausting week. 

I can't believe it's been 2 1/2 weeks since I first started teaching. Unbelievable. My kids are still great. No major behavior stuff, haven't had to send any notes home. I have had to ask kids to go sit at their desk for some think time before changing the behavior card, but, nothing serious enough to alarm the parents. 

It's funny, I thought I had the seating chart all set up perfectly. Then I realize, I never will because someone will always hit it off with the person next to them. Which is a great thing when it comes to social development, but tough at times when it comes to classroom learning. :) It's still cute though. 

I love that Friday is casual day. That means I get to wear jeans. Before actually teaching, I couldn't believe that teachers would wear jeans to school. I mean, professionalism! hello! Now that I'm here, I can't WAIT to wear jeans. It's like the best thing about Fridays! :) 

One other cute thing. The kids have started giving me hugs when leaving for the day or coming in. I didn't expect that at all (I'm not a huggy person at all, not even with my own family, just with my hubby). But it's just nice to know that no matter what, the kids still like me at the end of the day/week. :) It's an ego booster, even if it's from someone who is only seven or eight years old. :) 

Ah, Teaching. I absolutely love it :)